skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Is there any app or extension for remote office coffee breaks?
In my company, after the initial trouble going full remote for the COVID-19 outbreak we managed to do everything remotely: 1-1s, meetings, workshops, all the things that looked impossible to do outside the office.

Only one exception: the coffee break. The occasional chit chat which happened in the coffee area has not been substituted from any call, even the most informal one.

In fact, people didn't schedule coffees, just went in the coffee area when willing to take one and there we met other people and had a quick chat. It was super useful for informal alignment, team building and company culture building.

We tried to do remote coffees but the magic doesn't happen.

Do you know anyone who tried to replace this moment with a remote tool and succeeded?
Open Source and Liability – Craig Wright
Pretty sure they donated, no need to doubt the donation like that.
The new POTUS and VP were tough on crime icons up until that recently became unpopular.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/09/joe-bid...

https://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ff-federal-jud...
While this might seem like a victory for human dignity, it's not, it's just going to piss off the locals more and make them dislike foreigners, especially those from certain countries.
"I wonder which embassies contain nuclear warheads"

I would guess as a first approximation - almost certainly zero. The risks of discovery are far too high.
Because presumably Chrome sends data about your browsing habits to Google, and Chromium does not.
As far as I'm aware, there are two ways of discovering that:

1. Start a one month subscription and browse your websites. The add-on changes colour depending on whether the current site is monetized or not.

2. Try to find them here: https://coil.com/explore. If you click on "blogs", there's a search bar that you can use.

There's also a Twitter bot that tracks how many websites have it (https://twitter.com/WebMotized). Currently at 1400, with about a dozen of sites added weekly.
Same here, I tried it and liked it. I've made a few dollars too, it's early days but it looks very promising. I especially like the fact that the site can know you're paying an unlock articles, hide ads, etc for you, even though you're paying a few pennies per minute.
Great stuff but honestly I think this is a mistake:

> Q: Is this a new docs platform?

> A: No, we are working closely together with existing platforms, and our current priority is contributions to MDN Web Docs.

The web needs another platform for this, Mozilla can't be trusted.
Psychology has always been part of the market, and this event can be explained by Soros' theory of reflexivity - that the stock market leads the fundementals, not the other way around. Once you forgo the efficient market hypothesis (and it's never been more obvious how incorrect this is), this event makes more sense. Same as Tesla, momentum is a psychological event lead by a positive feedback loop.
Western European countries seem to be completely incompetent at deporting people. Illegal immigrants, terrorists, criminals, they fail to deport almost everyone.
As far as I know, they encrypt the data in sgx enclaves which are notoriously leaky.
Rsync.net also supports borg backups at a cheaper price than ZFS: https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html
Twitter pilot to let users flag 'false' content
A Physicist Has Worked Out Math That Makes 'Paradox-Free' Time Travel Plausible
The entire persona is quite clearly fabricated. I'm gobsmacked people are replying to them in good faith.
Firefox has been an antitrust fig leaf for Google for some time, via the $300m or so in funding it receives from Google annually.

Hard for regulators to come and force the issue under such circumstances unless something is desperately amiss. It is with some regret that I conclude everything is fine outside the open source community, so there won't be a reckoning yet.
Synth: Open-source Neumorphic UI framework for mobile
I had been a Firefox user (or Mozilla) since the Netscape days. I have now purged it from my devices since they became pro deplatforming and amplification of fake news. They have betrayed the values (I thought) they stood for.
The lack of time to distribute PAL codes is why the UK does not use PALs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link#Usage_b...

Rather we use hand-written letters and a lot of trust:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort
Hah. Admittedly I didn't look up the power consumption. I came across these modules a few years ago randomly and seeing this article reminded me of them.

I wasn't seriously suggesting it's a practical answer by any means =)
It doesn't sound like that at all. It's more like the shopping center hires people to follow you around and write down all this info about you while you shop, whether you want them to or not.
Your claim would make some sense (not much, but at least some) if companies were panhandling at the train station.
You can see SpaceX cleaned some surfaces from flown boosters to inspect welds:

https://twitter.com/wikkit/status/1353354797127245825

https://twitter.com/RDAnglePhoto/status/1353764105040093186?...
Heap allocations are garbage collected, how is OCaml slow otherwise?
The price is after tarsnap deduces and compresses, which it is quite good at and costs for 1 TB of real world data are much lower.

https://www.tarsnap.com/deduplication-examples
The last time I saw that one was in the University of British Columbia 7044 machine room, circa 1969. It was part of an “Anatomy of a Computer” cartoon, with a number of other visual puns. The adder is the only one I remember. Have never seen it online, alas.
> (1) substitute "people" for a "clusters of people with insular trust". Most of these people can not setup an account, but some of them can. They collectively managed their internal accounting and only need to go to the blockchain when a settlement with someone from the outgroup needs to be done. What is so hard to understand about this?

Great, now we are at the 10k libertarian tribes, which conveniently want to impose a great cost (energy-wise - and no, you didn't mention how this is set to improve) on society for their personal freedom. I understand that. Most often these libertarian interests align with criminal interests, I also understand that this is what happens with a bunch of sociopaths...

> (3) You can not hold CAD or NZD or USD or EUR on a bank from Brazil. You have to convert it and there is a 6% fee for it. This is on top of the exchange rate fee from transfer wise.

Can you just communicate with your libertarian tribes there, if you are not one of the persons actually allowed to communicate internationally ;).
As others commenters point you as a source, we'd love to know your original source ? The ones I found seems to refer to rumors.
I've watched the entire series twice and enjoyed how well it portrays the "typical" case of the industry/life -- the one where you aren't the 1-in-a-million breakout winner, but rather have to find enjoying in the game itself.
In Chinese socialism is shè huì zhǔ yì, which had to be intentionally misromanized as шэхуэйчжуи to avoid dick jokes.
Gordon was a great character in S1. Then they ruined him unnecessarily.
Well,

Windows Defender actively interferes with security software development. I've noticed that lots of developers either disable Windows Defender or try to whitelist the development folders. Whitelisting doesn't always work... Windows Defender will block certain behaviors such as token stealing and in-memory attacks.

Also... software developers often have 'test-signing' enabled and all kinds of other security risks that are unique to software development.
Old bombs have much simpler designs, which can be hacked. Moreover, A bomb have core and blanket. Blanket can be reused. The core can be replaced with a few kilos of plutonium and deflectors. Plutonium is easy to extract from waste of weapon grade reactor. Yeah, it's easier to remanufacture.
Algae's potential could make other ingredients green with envy
>By the way, your messages in WhatsApp are still end-to-end encrypted. So nobody (not even facebook) except for the recipient can read it.

Except, you know, if you or anyone you speak to or are in a group with has cloud backups to Google Drive or iCloud enabled, which anecdotally 90%+ people do. In which case at least two extra parties (Facebook and Google/Apple) are free to play fast and loose with your data.

It's a perfectly good post, but it feels unnecessary to shoehorn this line into it so you can have WhatsApp in the title and get more clicks.

As for BSNL, this is shameful and quite bizarre. I don't understand what they're getting out of the adware injection. If they wanted to track you, they could store whatever they wanted in localstorage or wherever without putting this front and centre.
They're definitely on the theater side of security. I've got locked out of my account multiple times for no reason.

Furious the second time, I sent a crafted image of an invalid ID to check if they actually even care. It seems they don't, as the account got unlocked all the same.
This article confuses me. Why does it make the scientists out to be on opposite sides of the aisle? A giraffe that wins a neck to neck fight is also one that may have better chances of finding food high up a tree when resources are scarce - both can lead to better survival and hence passing of genes. It's not one or the other, it can can be both.
I enjoyed Season 1 and 4, but the entire series was fantastic drama and historically accurate.

The reason I enjoyed Season 4 so much was to see the arc of how individuals evolved over time, how they learned from their mistakes, got past failures, and enjoyed the ride.
It's not the most common transliteration, but it's common enough; and even in Cyrillic, if you see "и" where "й" would normally be expected, you'd usually read it like the latter; e.g. "йод" is sometimes spelled "иод", but everybody will read it the same. Given that the written distinction between и/й dates back to Peter's civil script reform, and that it wasn't even considered a separate letter of the alphabet until the 1918 spelling reform, it's not really surprising.
Thanks - sorry I was looking in the National Geographic article.
Amazon has an emerging challenger – Ocado, a British online delivery firm
Yup, also:
Readme from ticalc.org: https://www.ticalc.org/cgi-bin/zipview?83plus/flash/shells/m...
MirageOS Home Page linked in the readme: http://www.detachedsolutions.com/mirageos/
No, Donald...
Maybe not "only" works on Chrome, but https://spatial.chat is one I've come across recently that claims to work "best" on Chrome. Some features of https://www.rocketlanguages.com/ only work in Chrome.

I'm a pretty dedicated Firefox user, but it's not a myth that more and more web shops are only bothering to test in Chrome.
> partied through college, skipped classes, hardly worked, majored in women’s studies / art history / literature /

Some of those things are not like the other. I studied computer science, plenty of people partied and as far as I can tell, people who studied humanities like literature had to work more. It was not easier major in terms of how much you have to work. I liked computer science, so I am always surprised about how many people seem to hold resentment toward those who studied less fun majors.

In any case, miniscule amount of population majored in women’s studies and they tend to cluster in top universities and from richer families. Meaning, it is not major drag on their future.

Majority of students go for practically sounding degrees - like various business related degrees. They tend to learn to like them somewhat, but generally are not intrinsically motivated to be accountants or what not at first. They are not making childhood passion based decisions, but the "what gets me job" decisions.
There are lots of things that interfere with software development. A shocking amount of my work happens in VMs, or on a dedicated "I don't trust you" workstation that re-pxe boots itself nightly. It shouldn't have to be this way, but there's ample evidence that it needs to be.
Highly recommend watching it all the way thru. I think it is great drama, but to deeply appreciate it, you have to be in the industry or know about it -- to realize how accurate the show is, and that is a smaller market of viewers.

And w/r/t accuracy, I dont mean technical accuracy but rather the characters types, the ups-and-downs of startups, the failures, etc.
>I had a lot of peers who partied through college, skipped classes, hardly worked, majored in women’s studies / art history / literature / etc and still managed to live in the dorms, buy daily lattes, have the latest iPhones, etc.

Did you go to a 4 year private school (possibly a non-Ivy)? I feel like you are describing a class of Americans who are oblivious to their privilege, but are mistakenly labeled as the working class who’s problems would simply be solved if they stopped buying avocado toast and switched their Starbucks for water.

I assure you your classmates who went to private 4 year school on dad’s dime do not reflect the majority of working class millennials. For many millennials they are more worried about being wiped out by a trip to the hospital that would cost the price of 3 lifetimes of lattes
Sorry bro, I forgot that it is verboten to point out the rampant right-wing / libertarian philosophy which took over HN as the YC bros got wealthier and wealthier.

Yes massah, we have a really nice pseudo-intellectual, crypto-fascist bulletin board here massah!

11th commandment: Though shall not suggest that a bunch of upper middle-class white American tech bros cannot solve all the world's problems with greed.
Ask HN: What startups or anything should have succeeded if launched years later?
Unearthing Entombed [audio]
Yes, I think we are in agreement. The money supply is endogenous and if all loans were paid back, there would be no money left.
Show HN: Shut Up Bird – Packs your tweets/likes in an ePub and then deletes them
For open source, nvidia is out of the question. You are too dependent on xorg (configs) and their intentionally uncomfortable DKMS. The free alternative - Nouveau - doesn't have hardware video decode/encode.

However, NVENC I consider currently the best encoder based on benchmarks and personal experience with VBR recordings.
I always assumed that it was because the main threat the seatbelts are trying to deal with were bad turbulence.

In such a scenario, if the plan rapidly drops and you're sat, the 2-point belt at the waist will keep you on your seat. If you're lying flat and you have the same belt you'll probably just sandwich your head against your knees or worse - especially if you're lying on your side or back!

I never checked to see if there was any validity to my thoughts though.
Systems that permit freedom need to let their users flag Twitter content.
I have had similar experiences.

Ordered a case for my phone, received a bottle of hair oil instead. The shipping label on the package had my name on it, but the invoice inside was for someone in another state. Probably a packaging issue.

Spoke to customer service, they said since it (the hair-oil) is a non-returnable item, I could keep it, and they would initiate a replacement for the correct item so I could receive one soon.

It seems like it would cost them more to go out of their way and retrieve this package, re-pack it and send it to the intended recipient, then do the same for my package than just letting me keep it and processing both orders again. The economics of Amazon at this scale are quite bizarre.
Stockholm Syndrome Escape Velocity by Kit Langton
> if your child loves watching tv, bring the ipad to the park and make her watch it outside.

I was in agreement until this.

Doesn't this defeat the purpose of being outside? To actually use their eyes to see things near and far, run about and get those muscles working? I don't know what it is about modern parenting that seems wholeheartedly dedicated to the task of making children worship at the altar of Disney and Youtube while denying any chance of developing mental and physical toughness.
I think that's a symptom, not the cause.

The complexity of web standards in general smother it with it's own weight.
The common web has enough raw financial and person backing to grind through that. The semantic web does not.

CURIEs and the depending standards alone are well over 100 pages.
Language tags alone has 90.

RDF has like 100, Sparql has a combined of more than 300, and OWL has more than 500, even though it assumes that the reader is generally familiar with Description logics, so it's probably a couple thousand if you take the required academic literature into account.

Nobody is going to read all of that, let alone build that.

Especially not a bunch of academics who don't care about the implementation as long as it's good enough to get the next paper out the door.

So everybody pools on these few projects, because they're the only thing that's kinda working.
OWLAPI, Protege, ... uh that's it.

Because everything else, is broken and unfinished.

Here's a thought experiment, name one production ready RDF libray for every major programming language (C, Java, Python, Js), that doesn't have major, stale, unresolved issues in their issue tracker.
It's all broken, and there is simply too much work required to fix things.

It's only natural that people start
to infight when there is only few hospitable oasis.

What we need is a simpler ecosystem, where people can stake their claim on their niche, where they have the ability and power to experiment and explore.
From the wording, naming and UI I thought that Open Collective itself was introducing this project!
Somewhat of a tangent, but a pet peeve of mine is people misusing ‘by definition’ where there is no clear definition to be leveraged.

> By definition, an AI researcher does not have operational experience.

Why? What definition?
The image at the top is actually a video. It fooled me, too.
Nerf’s new blasters curve their shots
A hackiography, surely.
Lots of monitoring setups are either too simple or too advanced. We had a system accepting a certain kind of applications. We would normally get about ~1500 a day, following a pattern with a steady amount during working hours, many in the evening, and almost nothing during the night. Any human could take a glance at the graph and quickly tell if something was wrong or everything ok.

We wanted to catch if something went wrong and people couldn't submit applications. We set up an alarm that triggered "if less than X applications last hour", but that was hard to tweak so it didn't go off during the night and was unusable. The tool had no way to set that rule to only apply for certain time periods or any way of making more advanced rules. But even if it had, I think it would have been a game of whack-a-mole with false positives and obvious errors slipping through.

Instead we could set up some kind of AI "anomaly detection". That was almost even worse. Firstly, because no one could tell us how it really worked, how does it know what we consider an anomaly? I mean, if there is a holiday in the middle of the week and we get fewer applications than normal that's an anomaly, but nothing to sound an alarm for.
Datadog works really well for us. Their "watchdog" feature , that monitor every metric you send to them, based on anomaly detection, helped us to uncover many issues, with a low % of false positives.

Kudos to their AI team (but yeah, Datadog is hella expensive)
> Transferwise uses rates close to what the central bank/governments is paying, which is far from the actual market rate. Plus the whole 6% fee.

No, you're not listening. TransferWise Borderless is a bank account into which you can deposit and retain US dollars or Euros or CAD or NZD, and any other currency you want, even in Brazil. There's no 6% fee because there's no conversion. There's no exchange rate because there's no conversion. Unless you elect to. Read about it and then reply. It stays in the currency which you receive. It's a multi-currency online bank account.

They give you an account number and a routing number in the US, and in SEPA, and in the UK, and in Australia, and so on. You receive a domestic transfer. It shows up in your account in the foreign currency. And it stays in the foreign currency. Then you can send it elsewhere if you want. Or hold onto it.

Doesn't expanding TWB sound way better than crypto? It's nice and regulated, and insured too!

[1] https://transferwise.com/us/multi-currency-account/
True, it is often hard to secure these things when the ultimate goal is to produce a new binary, however there are obvious low-hanging fruit that I've always encountered regardless of the host OS used. The encouragement of using a read-write directory (I'm looking at Eclipse and Android Studio of all things, but the majority of development tools are guilty of these) are fully writable (especially executables) without administrative/superuser permissions. Seriously, you want Android SDK on a user-writable place by default? That's questionable at best and contrary to any sysadmins who are the ones to lock these executables to well-known places.
it is an exploit; not sure if serious, as conditions required to trigger it are quite extraordinary. couple hundred million loss isn't a big deal for them but pricing models will be updated for sure.
Are you OK with the seemingly inexorable march toward human eusociality and reduction to meme-substrate?
What's the mistake? Look up; хуэй is a much better representation of the pronunciation of 会 than хуй would be. The pinyin spelling "hui" omits the primary vowel of the syllable.
FreeWire, an electric vehicle charging and power startup, has raised $50M
Which is why apps like Signal don't use SGX to protect keys.
well past 100k now, u/WSBgod, u/DeepFuckingValue, and others are showing plays worth millions of $

some of these accounts "Rose up from nothing" by investing an entire portfolio of 50+ thousand dollars into extremely risky options. Either this is suspect or I'm out of touch with the average joe's risk tolerance.
I disagree. You should be a member of a party because they share your views, not the other way around.
I send only transactional emails (confirm email and so on, no newsletters, you can't say I'm spamming people - I suck at follow ups) and while Gmail and other free email providers work just fine, it's the institutions where you start with negative reputation it seems and have to work to earn the right to send email to users who asked for it
You are assuming that a lot of investing is ML-driven. It's not.
> practical differences in youth would be non-computing and a generation or two earlier

I agree with that one, but that was not part of the discussion.

Maybe TV's existed in the '50, but in the rural areas of Flanders, not a lot of people had one.

For me, the move from no electronics to electronics, seems bigger than the move from electronics to everything is computer. That you play a VCR tape or mp4 isn't that different. That you play a cassette or mp3 is also not that different. It's details compared to not being able to play anything at all.
Testing Out DuckDB's Full Text Search Extension
SpaceX initially planned to have 5 laser links per satellite but settled with 4. That's 4 separate lasers maintaining contact with 4 neighboring satellites.
The two in front and back are nearly stationary. The sides are constant moving though.

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20190906_inter_satellite_laser...
Which linux x86/amd64?

Do you mean the linux that puts libraries in

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

or the one that puts them in

/usr/lib64

?
Take-Two is suing over a Grand Theft Auto cheating mod – again
Facebook Blocks Netanyahu Chatbot over Privacy Infraction
Clubhouse Invitation for 25$
Website features faces from Parler's Capitol riot videos